The encyclopedia of American politics

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities' online resource for the latest news and analysis on urban sustainability and development, from a global perspective.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

These tools can help you test ideas and products with real users so you design services that work for people. There are also tools to help you present research in a meaningful way and bring it to life.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The page uses search terms, surfaced through the research, to find job postings using that language via Indeed.

• The People
• Graveyard
• Find a job or hire someone

In the midst of an immigration crisis on the US-Mexico border, Code for America, Codeando México, and The GovLab organized online listening sessions to help determine areas of need and where the civic tech community might help.

• immigration

• Needs assessment

an experimental project to enable practical alternatives to how we manage our personal data and interact on the internet

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Decentralization

The Human Rights Data Analysis Group is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that applies rigorous science to the analysis of human rights violations around the world.

• human rights
• immigration

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

APPLYING THE BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES APPROACH TO DRIVE INNOVATION IN CITIES

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

An API standard for ride hailing services

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Unlocking People's Expertise to Solve Urban Challenges

• methodology
• reports

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Building inside government
• Innovation capacity

We take risks, catalyze fresh thinking and test new approaches in order to creatively disrupt the status quo.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Meet the others

Luminate Group's daily email digest of findings across the following topics: Data platforms and privacy-preserved tracingNovel testing for both COVID-19 and antibodiesTreatments and vaccine developmentDecentralized supply chains and open-source hardwareVulnerable populations and protecting at-risk groupsStrengthening the safety net to deliver aid and preserve/create jobsHealth system and workforce protections and capacityPublic-private partnership opportunitiesOpen innovation initiatives

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

Tech Community Incubator in Hudson Valley

• Decent work and economic growth
• Quality education

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

Civic tech tools are often not used to the extent that their creators hoped for.

• reports

• Graveyard
• Government transparency

AppMyCity! is a contest for the world’s best urban app

• cities

• The People
• Awards and prizes
• Fieldwide resources

Predictiv helps organisations make better and faster decisions.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech By Daniel X. O’Neil and the Smart Ch…

• books

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• Books

CivLab is a suite of complementary projects and design-thinking that revolve around the concepts of citizenship, civics, and engagement.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields

The latest bills and statements by members of Congress on the topics you care about - search the record

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A global measure of how governments are publishing and using open data for accountability, innovation and social impact. Last published in 2016.

• Civic data
• Report cards and audits

Across the country, Sunshine Week is marked by panel discussions, workshops and other events about using and understanding the latest developments in freedom of information resources.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

The mission of City Innovate Foundation is to guide local government agencies in developing user-centered products and services for the 21st century. By exploring emerging digital technology solutions with rising start-ups and experienced professionals from private and academic sectors, we enable city governments to test and learn while minimizing risk.

• The Tech
• Govtech

The Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab (TCIL or Lab) will find and nurture technologically feasible, testable pilot projects which begin to solve some of the hardest cyber problems afflicting the national security industrial base and our country.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is a growing global coalition of 165 international, regional, and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in 65 countries that is working to preemptively ban fully autonomous weapons.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Partner networks
• Specific campaigns

Messaging flows for campaigns and organizations

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

DSU is the official app of the Department for Emergency Situations, Ministry of Internal Affairs.DSU's aim is to provide citizens with a quick tool for information and reportings about critical situations and disasters which they are witnessing.What do you find inside DSU app: - articles, news and official statements of the Department for Emergency Situations;- information about weather alerts, traffic alerts and natural disasters;- a section for reporting events which you are witnesses (fire, flood, accident i.e.);- a section for informing you about how to act effectively in critical situations and the behaviour you should adopt;- tests for verifying your knowledge.We are excited to provide this useful tool and hope you will enjoy using it.DSU TeamPS: Your feedback is important to us. We welcome and appreciate your opinions, suggestions and rankings.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

New York City partnered with behavioral economics firm ideas42 and the University of Chicago Crime Lab to test simple “nudges” to get people to court; text reminders improved appearance rates, resulting in thousands fewer arrest warrants

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Organize campaigns

The hottest news topics, the most credible stories - across the political spectrum.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Filter bubble poppers

Pledge and training materials on how to resist a coup

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

DebateArt is a unique and growing community committed to the idea of exchanging views and perspectives through debating.

• Civic forums
• Debate

The Civic Media Codesign Studio was a service-learning, project-based studio course where students partner with community-based organizations to create civic media projects grounded in real-world needs.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

A statement of 12 principles for online, participatory lawmaking.

• The People
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Collaborative, real-time incident response tool for first responders.

• apps
• fires

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Tech for public challenges

Protests for a kinder world.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

Granicus empowers modern digital government with the latest in cloud technology that connects 160 million people with over 4,000 government organizations at the local, state and federal levels.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

The Every Voice Engaged Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that helps citizens, governments and other nonprofit organizations solve problems that benefit from effective civic engagement.

Continued American leadership in AI is of paramount importance to maintaining the economic and national security of the United States and to shaping the global evolution of AI in a manner consistent with our Nation’s values, policies, and priorities.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Making innovation in philanthropy easier.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

The Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center at NYU consists of computer scientists who work closely with domain experts to apply the latest advances in computing to problems of critical societal importance, and simultaneously generate hypotheses and methods that new data sources and data types demand.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data visualization

In partnership with the Social Tech Trust, the Civic Innovation Challenge is calling on tech startups and innovators to develop solutions to London’s biggest challenges.

• cities
• mobility
• planning

• The People
• Get funding
• Challenges

An Android game that provided users with an immersive role playing experience of the 2019 Hong Kong protests

• The Tech
• Media
• Organize campaigns

The aim of the Digital Ecosystem for E-Participation Linking Youth (DEEP-Linking Youth) project is to explore how e-participation can foster young people’s empowerment and active participation in democratic life.

• youth

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard

360/OS brings together journalists, activists, innovators, and leaders from around the world as part of our grassroots digital solidarity movement fighting for objective truth as a foundation of democracy.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

We collect nationwide datasets of who and what is on the ballot for each election.

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

The Public Interest Technology Universities Network is a partnership that fosters collaboration between 21 universities and colleges committed to building the nascent field of public interest technology and growing a new generation of civic-minded technologists.

• Partner networks
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

A tool to track progress on UN Sustainable Development Goals

• Sustainable Development Goals

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Inclusive User Experience Research, Design, and Testing

• The People
• Build something
• User research

The experiment will test whether machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) can effectively cluster similar proposals and recommendations from ‘like minded citizens’ on the Consul digital democracy platform

• CONSUL
• experiments

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech